Talk of Prof. Vivien Petras: ‘Searching Cultural Heritage – Heterogeneity as a Challenge and as a Key’
On Friday, January 20, Prof. Vivien Petras from the Information Science Research Community will present latest research about searching in cultural heritage information systems.
Abstract
Every domain presents different challenges for search environments. Heterogeneity in many variations (content types, data quality, multilinguality, audiences) is the unifying challenge of all cultural heritage information systems. This talk will discuss Europeana, the European digital library, museum and archive, as a case study for cultural heritage portals and introduce domain-specific interaction scenarios for this environment, which differ from general web search. It will present challenges we have identified in integrating cultural heritage resources in a search environment and discuss implementation solutions such as data enrichment, multilingual non-textual information access components that promise improvements but may also introduce other pitfalls.
Speaker
Prof. Vivien Petras, PhD
Web/Url
https://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/en/school/people/petras
Institution
Research Group Information Retrieval at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin